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Silas White
Silas White (born 1977) is a Canadian publisher, editor, author, musician, songwriter and politician. Early life and education White grew up in a literary household in Pender Harbour, British Columbia, where his parents Howard White (writer), Howard and Mary White operated Harbour Publishing, one of British Columbia's major book publishers. White worked at Harbour Publishing during his youth and co-authored ''Local Heroes'', a history of the Western Hockey League while still in high school. He attended the University of British Columbia on a President's Scholarship, receiving a BA in 1999 and moved to Toronto, where he pursued his interest in indie rock music, writing songs and performing in venues around the city with his band Electric Fences. In August 2019 he released a retroactive album of Electric Fences recordings from 15 years prior, ''Retroact 2001-2004'', with Vancouver indie label Kingfisher Bluez. White now lives in Gibsons, British Columbia with his daughters Simone (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibsons
Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,605 in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Strait of Georgia. Although it is on the mainland, the Sunshine Coast is not accessible by road. Vehicle access is by BC Ferries from Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver, a 40-minute crossing; or by a ferry from Powell River to Earls Cove, north of Sechelt. The town is also accessible by water, by float plane to the harbour, and by small aircraft to Sechelt Airport, approx. 20 km to the northwest. Gibsons is best known in Canada as the setting of the popular and long running CBC Television series ''The Beachcombers'', which aired from 1972 to 1990. The storefront "Molly's Reach" (now a cafe), the restored tug ''Persephone'', and a display about the series at the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives are popular attractions. Other films that have used Gibsons as a location include '' Charlie St. Cloud'' (2010), starring Kim Basinger and Zac Efron (as a stand-in for Marblehead, Massachusetts); ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Bowling
Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Awards and recognition * 2002: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, ''Darkness and Silence'' * 2003: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Witness Ghost'' * 2004: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Memory Orchard'' * 2004: Alberta Literary Awards, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, ''The Paperboy's Winter'' (PDF document) * 2008: |
Raincoast Books
Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton & MacDougall. Today, Raincoast has over 90 employees and three divisions: Raincoast Distribution, Publishers Group Canada, and BookExpress. Divisions Raincoast Distribution Raincoast Distribution is a Canadian company which provides complete sales, marketing and fulfillment services to a wide range of general trade and gift publishers from the United States, Britain and Canada. Companies distributed by Raincoast include Chronicle Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, New Harbinger and St. Martin's Press. Publishers represented by Raincoast Distribution :Beginning Press : Bilingual Books, Inc. :Bloomsbury :Chronicle Books :Creative Company :Drawn & Quarterly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of British Columbia
''The Encyclopedia of British Columbia'' is an encyclopedia first published in 1999. It was published by Harbour Publishing, and edited by Daniel Francis. It contained some 4,000 articles and 1,000 pictures about the Canadian province of British Columbia. The hardcover edition came with a CD-ROM version of the book; ten years in the making, it has been described as "a labour of love" by ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...''. A best seller with 30,000 copies in print, now it is only available online for a fee, and is known as KnowBC. There it continues to be updated and expanded by Daniel Francis. The KnowBC portal includes access to many other Harbour Publishing publications. References * References External linksPublisher's Site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Rose GoldenEagle
Carol Rose GoldenEagle is a writer and broadcaster, from Saskatchewan. Early life and education Carol Rose GoldenEagle was born, in 1963, in a religious hospital, to a First Nations woman who was unmarried, so Hospital authorities stripped her from her mother. Her adoption, without the agreement of her mother, was part of a now discredited program known as the Sixties Scoop. The purpose of the program was to break Native culture by adopting children into white families. Hospital authorities intervened to take GoldenEagle from her mother even though she was a nurse. GoldenEagle never met her mother, only being able to trace her roots as an adult, and learning her mother had died in a car accident. GoldenEagle describes growing up without knowing anyone else of First Nations' background, hearing disparaging comments about Natives, even from some members of her adopted family, singling out her adopted father as an exception, who did support her, and didn't allow those comments, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Ramadan
Ahmad Danny Ramadan ( Arabic: أحمد داني رمضان; born May 31, 1984) is a Syrian–Canadian novelist, public speaker, and LGBTQ-refugee activist who was born in Damascus, Syria. Ramadan's work focuses on themes of immigration, identity, diaspora and belonging. His debut novel, ''The Clothesline Swing'', won multiple awards. ''The Foghorn Echoes'' won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Currently, Ramadan lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his husband. Writing Early work Ramadan has translated the work of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi to English, released in 2015 by Greystone Books under the title ''1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think''. Ramadan published two collections of short stories in Arabic while he lived in Egypt. His first collection, ''Death and Other Fools'', was released by Dar Laila in 2004. His second collection, Aria, was released by Dar Malameh in 2008. ''The Clothesline Swing'' ''The Clothesline Swing'' is Ramadan's debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Fernandes
Raoul Fernandes is a Canadian poet from Vancouver, British Columbia. His debut poetry collection ''Transmitter and Receiver'', published in 2015, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. ''Open Book'', January 26, 2017. References External links * 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian male writers[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayla Czaga
Kayla Czaga (born 1989) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection ''For Your Safety Please Hold On''. The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award. Czaga graduated from the University of Victoria in 2011 with a degree in English and creative writing before pursuing an MFA at the University of British Columbia."MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus" '''', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Denham
Joe Denham is a Canadian poet and fiction writer."Windstorm, by Joe Denham" '''', October 2010. He is most noted for his 2016 collection ''Regeneration Machine'', which won the Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Pool
Sandy Pool is a Canadian poet, editor and professor of creative writing. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and a chapbook published by Vallum Editions. Her first collection, ''Exploding Into Night'' (Guernica Editions) was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. '''', October 13, 2010. Her second full-length collection, ''Undark: An Oratorio'' (Nightwood Editions) was nominated for a |
Rob Winger
Rob Winger (born 1974) is an Ontario-born poet and educator. Winger grew up in Springvale, Ontario, and has lived in Toronto, Sackville, New Brunswick, South Korea, Bangkok, Thailand, Guelph, Ontario, and Ottawa, Ontario. Winger now lives with his family in Port Perry, Ontario. He has been an assistant professor in the Department of English at Trent University since 2013. Education Winger received a B.A. in English & fine arts from Mount Allison University in 1997, a B.Ed. from the University of Ottawa in 2001, an MA in English literature from the University of Guelph in 2002, and a PhD on the poet John Thompson from Carleton University in 2009. Winger was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University from 2011 to 2013. Works Winger's first collection of poems about famed photographer Eadweard Muybridge, entitled ''Muybridge's Horse'', won the 2003 CBC Literary Award for poetry. Published by Nightwood Editions in 2007, the final book, ''Muybridge's Horse: a poem in three phases'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hsu
Ray Hsu was a Canadian professor at the University of British Columbia. His primary research areas are virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Biography Hsu grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He received an Honours B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He conducts research at the University of British Columbia's Emerging Media Lab and teaches at the Social Justice Institute. In 2007, Hsu and his work were the subject of an episode of the television documentary series produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge. In 2013, he was named one of Vancouver's "most promising entrepreneurs" by the Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a keynote speaker at Re-animating & Re-searching: Mobilizing Knowledge in Education. Books * ''Anthropy'' (2004) * ''Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon'' (2010) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
